But once again, not overly much Western to be found in here. It has great characters, an interesting story and a cool new battle system, but it was a bit uneven in parts and buggy as hell (crashed on me right after I defeated the final boss, which is why I have technically never finished it, because I only saw the credits roll on Youtube afterwards). Wild Arms 2 is a weird one, that seemed to only pay lip-service to the Western-roots of the series in favor of a more modernized setting with secret agents and terrorist organisations and stuff. Nevertheless, Wild Arms was a pretty good game, so in time, I decided to check out its sequels. Which was a shame, because I really liked the idea of a JRPG set in a Wild-West-world. See, while there were elements of a Western present in Wild Arms, it ultimately veered far closer to the Sci-Fantasy-approach of the then contemporary Final Fantasy-games in the end. actually a game for the PSone, namely Wild Arms, a quirky little JRPG that mixed a lot of elements from one of my favorite SNES-games, Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, with rudimentary 3D-graphics (only during battles, which was probably absolutely cutting-edge in 1996 but looks jarring today) and a Wild-West-setting. I finally got myself a PS2 in late 2009 and one of the first games I bought was. So buckle up, this is gonna be a bumpy ride. But yeah, a month or so ago, I finished Wild Arms 3 for the second time and I still think that it's brilliant and it holds up well and also I've got some more thoughts about it. I did play it in the meantime, but for some reason or other never finished it after 2010 and before 2021. And then I didn't play it again until 2021. Released back in 2002, I didn't play it for the first time until 2010, I believe. nah, probably better than the GBA-version, I guess) period. Wild Arms 3, the third best JRPG of all time and the fourth best game you could play on the PS2 (maybe fifth best if you count the PS2-port of Max Payne, but that's probably the worst version of the game there is.
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